raylib dependencies

While raylib uses libraries that were developed by other people (for specific tasks, like supporting a particular file format), this is all internal. raylib has no external dependencies. All of the required libraries are bundled with the raylib sources.

The following table lists the raylib dependencies. Most are single-header, public-domain libraries.

NOTE: Last updated on 6th February 2020 for the raylib 3.0 release.

Library	Version	raylib module	Notes
GLFW3	3.4-master	rglfw	Window and input management
msf_gif	2.1	core	GIF recording basic functionality
sdefl.h	-	core	DEFLATE compression algorithm
sinfl.h	-	core	DEFLATE decompression algorithm
GLAD	0.1.10a0	rlgl	Extensions initialization for OpenGL 3.3 Core
stb_image	2.26	textures	Multiple image formats loading
stb_image_resize	0.96	textures	Image resizing functions
stb_image_write	1.15	textures	Image writing to multiple formats
stb_perlin	0.5	textures	Perlin noise generator
stb_truetype	1.24	text	TTF/OTF fonts data loading
stb_rect_pack	1.00	text	Rectangles packer, used on font packing
miniaudio	0.10.33	raudio	Audio device management
stb_vorbis	1.14 (fork)	raudio	OGG audio data loading
dr_wav	0.12.29	raudio	WAV audio data loading
dr_mp3	0.6.27	raudio	MP3 audio data loading
dr_flac	0.12.29	raudio	FLAC audio data loading
jar_mod	0.01	raudio	MOD audio module loading
jar_xm	0.3.1	raudio	XM audio module loading
par_shapes	-	models	Geometric shapes generation (*)
tinyobj_loader_c	? (Ray)	models	OBJ/MTL data loading (*)
cgltf	1.10	models	glTF models data loading

Note that some of the dependencies listed above are specific to one of the platforms that raylib supports.

As mentioned above, some of the listed libraries (stb_image, stb_image_write, stb_image_resize, stb_vorbis, jar_mod, jar_xm, glad and mini_al) are included with raylib as single-file, header-only libraries, and generally only depend on the C standard library for the target platform (msvcrt, libc, bionic et cetera). They are compiled together with raylib (no need to manually link libraries).

Though raylib has no external dependencies, there are some platform-specific system libraries that do need to be linked when compiling the collection of examples. The following table lists the required libraries.

PLATFORM	external dependencies	Notes
DESKTOP:Windows	OpenGL, winmm, gdi32, user32, kernel32	Required for window creation
DESKTOP:Linux	OpenGL, X11	Also requires linkage with libm(math), pthreads(POSIX threads), dl(dynamic loading) and X11 window system specific libs: X11, Xrandr, Xinerama, Xi, Xxf86vm and Xcursor
DESKTOP:FreeBSD	OpenGL, X11	Also requires linkage with libm(math), pthreads(POSIX threads), dl(dynamic loading) and X11 window system specific libs: X11, Xrandr, Xinerama, Xi, Xxf86vm and Xcursor
DESKTOP:OSX	OpenGL, Cocoa	Required for window creation
ANDROID	EGL, OpenGLES2.0, OpenSLES	Code must be compiled using Android NDK libraries. Requires linkage with -native_app_glue, log, android, atomic, libc, libm(math) and dl(dynamic loading)
RASPBERRY PI	EGL, OpenGLES2.0, bcm_host	Graphics run in native mode using bcm_host (no XWindows required) and inputs are also natively read (no XWindows input events), also requires linkage with libm(math), pthreads(POSIX threads) and dl(dynamic loading).
HTML5 (Web)	WebGL	Code must be compiled using emscripten SDK, dependencies linkage is automatically detected.

raylib is highly modular by design. Many modules can be omitted when they are not being used, and consequently, the libraries used by those modules will also be redundant.